What was Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies?
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
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In To Catch a Thief (1955), who extinguishes a cigarette on a plateful of eggs?
Jessie Royce Landis, who played Grace Kelly’s mother in To Catch a Thief (1955), extinguishes a cigarette on a plateful of eggs.
Who won the Cannes Film Festival prize for Best Film in 1968?
No one won the Cannes Film Festival prize for Best Film in 1968. Political demonstrations led by directors like Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Lelouch forced the festival to close in mid-proceedings that year.
Who adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people?
Producer Michael Todd, who filled Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with forty-four cameo stars, adopted the word “cameo” as a cinematic term for walk-on parts for well-known people.
How many movie stories and screenplays did Ben Hecht write?
Alone or in collaboration, Ben Hecht (1893-1964) wrote about seventy credited stories and scripts. He worked on many more without credit. The last film he worked on, Casino Royale (1967), was such a film.
Who sang the hit song “Jean” over the credits of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)?
Composer, Rod McKuen sang the hit song “Jean” over the credits of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). But the single that reached Billboard magazine’s “Hot 100 Chart” in 1969 was sung by folk singer Oliver.
When did the “Dead End Kids” become the “East Side Kids”?
In 1940, when producer Sam Katzman brought some of the kids to Monogram Pictures. The kids (who eventually included Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop, and others) had started out as the “Dead End Kids” in Dead End (1937, Samuel Goldwyn). They had gone on to work for Warner Brothers and Universal. Their…